Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The books remain popular and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake.
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Arthur Michell Ransome 18 January 1884 Leeds, England, UK
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3 June 1967 (aged 83) Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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